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Everyone Worth Knowing
by Lauren Weisberger
from Downtown Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• The Tome of Spoiled Entitlement (the Sequel)
  This is basically a derivative of The Devil Wears Prada, which read well because it is a thinly-veiled stab at Anna Wintour (a real person) and Vogue (a real magazine). A lot of people read Vogue and enjoy fashion, either directly, or from an armchair, so it's fun to watch them get lambasted, and because people are familiar with it, there's something relateable about The Devil Wears Prada.
  But who wants to be a party planner? I kept on recalling that episode of Friends that Winona Rider guested on,... more info

• fun chick-lit
  I liked this better than The Devil Wears Prada. Yes, it's predictable but it's fun for a weekend of light reading. Bette is a party planner/publicist in NYC who is addicted to reading romance novels - how serious of a book can this be? Don't take this book as a piece of classic literature. Enjoy it for what it is and have fun!

• Blah, blah, Gucci, blah, bleh...I need an advil.
  I tried to like this book, but it was awful & disappointing and the author disappointed me as well. I just listened to the audio version from the library & heard it at work, so thankfully no money was spent. I should have known from the start where the story would end up.I willingly kept on listening, hoping that somehow it should get better, but I couldn't even make it to the end! It's basically the same "Devil Wears Prada" story with different names for the characters. There was no substance, no... more info

• Not worth It
  Picked this one up because I found the "Devil Wears Prada" good for a light read when traveling.
  The cover of Everyone Worth Knowing touted the fact that is was written by the same author in almost the same font size as the title.
  That should have warned me : Be wary when someone is trying too hard.
  The theme here is vaguely similar to the original bestseller, Bette the main protagonist is sick of her job in banking, her boss and his daily inspirational emails with quotations. One day she... more info

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